I've found a pattern from adventure games that applies to programming. When you pick up an item, it has exactly one use in a future task. After that point, it's spent. Same is true for values in a data structure.

Anybody else use this heuristic? Does it have a name?

So excited to run into a bug in Jinaga.NET. Is that weird?

Deepseek’s “reasoning” is like a country music song: if it sounds good, it must be true.

ASCII art has utility beyond aesthetics. Now it’s easier to see that the replicator has started successfully.

I was shocked today to see that Tinker Toys have 8-fold rotational symmetry, not 6! Another false memory from my childhood exposed.

TIL: it takes two additional NPM packages to safely read a text file in Node (iconv-lite and chardet)

At scale, lightning always strikes twice. Be prepared for it. www.improving.com/thoughts/dat...